The best way to make your dreams come true

is to wake up

~ Paul Valery~

I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes.

Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals

are homogenized into each day's events.

If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.

~Sam Keen~

"Until you make the unconscious conscious,

it will direct your life and you will call it fate."  

~Carl Jung~

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,

but by making the darkness conscious.

The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable

and therefore not popular.

~Carl Jung~

At some point early in our lives, we decide just how conscious

we wish to be. We establish a threshold of awareness.

We choose how stark a truth we are willing to admit into

consciousness, how readily we will examine contradictions in

our lives and beliefs, how deeply we wish to penetrate.

Our brains can censor what we see and hear, we can filter

reality to suit our level of courage. At every crossroads we

make the choice again for greater or lesser awareness.

~Marilyn Ferguson~

So habitual is the trance of ordinary life

that one could say that human beings are a race that

sleeps and awakens, but does not awaken fully.

Because half-awake is sufficient for

the tasks we customarily do,

few of us are aware of the

dysfunction of our condition

~Arthur Deikman~

Your vision will become clear only when

you look into your heart.

Who looks outside, dreams.

Who looks inside, awakens.

~Carl Jung:~

When we talk about mindfulness, we are describing conscious

living and alert presence of mind. Mindfulness helps us bring our

innate awareness into sharper focus; it helps us  pay attention 

to what we are doing as we are doing it. Paying attention helps

us live in, and appreciate, the present moment in all its richness

and depth. It helps us to see – truly see – what is actually going

on. Simply put, attention pays off.

~Surya Das~

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as

we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all

about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie

potential forms of consciousness entirely different.   We may

go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply

the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their

completeness.

~William James~

One should pay attention to even

the smallest crawling creature,

for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us,

and even the smallest ant

may wish to communicate with a man.

~Black Elk~

To be aware that we are only partially awake is the first

condition of becoming and making ourselves more fully awake.

~A. R. Orage~

Attention is the intention to live without reservation

in the here-and-now.

~Timothy Miller~

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going

nowhere and does not know where to go.

~Gurdjieff~

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,

joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

~Henry Miller~

The moment one gives close attention to anything,

even a blade of grass,

it becomes a mysterious, awesome,

indescribably magnificent world in itself.

~Henry Miller~

Your Silent Master is completely aware, infinitely Intelligent,

and ready to give you all the insight, information, and direction

you need to fulfil your dreams, ambitions, and goals. In fact,

this Consciousness is the Source of all your true desires.

~Tae Yun Kim~

Whatever you put your attention on

will grow stronger in your life.

"There is no reality; there is only perception."

~Jay McGraw~

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,

Hath had elsewhere its setting,

And cometh from afar . . . .

~Wiliam Wordsworth~

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